Timeline for What is somebody's "real" surname from a set of possible spelling variants?
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| Feb 9, 2013 at 10:49 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackGenealogy/status/300194754157760512 | ||
| Feb 5, 2013 at 4:19 | vote | accept | Mike | ||
| Feb 4, 2013 at 6:03 | answer | added | GeneJ | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 3, 2013 at 14:20 | comment | added | ACProctor | This question was initially closed as a possible duplicate of: genealogy.stackexchange.com/q/307/108. It has since been re-worded but it now sounds closer to: genealogy.stackexchange.com/q/2254/108. | |
| Feb 3, 2013 at 12:44 | answer | added | ACProctor | timeline score: 12 | |
| Feb 3, 2013 at 10:32 | history | edited | user104 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S Feb 3, 2013 at 10:31 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| S Feb 3, 2013 at 10:31 | history | reopened |
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| Feb 2, 2013 at 21:40 | history | edited | GeneJ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 2, 2013 at 21:31 | history | edited | Mike | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 2, 2013 at 21:29 | comment | added | Mike | Hi @ColeValleyGirl. I don't think it's the same question that this is linked to. I'm asking about the point that was glossed over in that post which was "The list gets longer when we consider spelling variants." In particular I'm wondering how to decide which to use. Would you go with the most correct-seeming document? Or maybe perhaps the variant in most widespread use? What is the general rule? Thanks. | |
| Feb 2, 2013 at 20:52 | comment | added | ACProctor | Hi @Mike. I think this case is a duplicate, in contrast to your recent photo question, but it is a very common problem. The essence is that people have to break the connection between who an individual is, and the names by which they were known. Software can easily take care of all someone's alternative names (e.g. formal, informal, maiden, Romanized, etc) but there is always the problem of how you identify them uniquely in a report, or a chart, or simply on the screen. In principle, this "title" (for want of another term) doesn't even have to be a name. This is covered already though. | |
| Feb 2, 2013 at 20:02 | comment | added | AdrianB38 | I'm not sure the original question and answers deal adequately with spelling variations - e.g. are spelling variations genealogically significant? And should we handle a drift in spelling over the years the same as variation over a short period? | |
| S Feb 2, 2013 at 17:51 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| S Feb 2, 2013 at 17:51 | history | closed | user104 | exact duplicate | |
| Feb 2, 2013 at 17:50 | comment | added | user104 | Mike, this is very similar to the question indicated, so I'm going to mark it as a duplicate. When you've looked at the answers there, if you feel there's still some information you're missing, come back here and edit the question to ask for what's missing. If you comment here when you've done that with @ColeValleyGirl in the text, I'll re-enable it for answers. | |
| Feb 2, 2013 at 17:32 | history | asked | Mike | CC BY-SA 3.0 |